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I think the petition's goal is to ensure NH flies off to explore other Kuiper Belt objects instead of being sent to the ass end of nowhere like NASA apparently wants to do

I'd rather Congress just give them more.

I wish the space nerds around the country were more politically active. Nonviolent pro-NASA protests in front of the Capitol when they're deciding on the budget every year would accomplish a lot more for space than just bitching on the internet.

Doubtful. NASA's yearly budget is like $20-30 billion on average and mothballing New Horizons will only save them a pithy few million.

Which makes me think the money explanation is bogus. I wonder if something else is going on.

🤔 It'd be a pretty interesting punishment for particularly heinous crimes, though. So there's that

What? I thought it did. :( That actually sucks.

We would be able to get pics of other Kuiper Belt objects though, wouldn't we?

Yes it absolutely does

NASA wants to shit-can it because of money issues. They want to turn it into a heliosphere probe, which NASA doesn't need; it just gives them an excuse to mothball it.

A shit ton of planetary scientists have been complaining and word got out, upsetting us space nerds everywhere. NASA doesn't want to send another probe out to the Kuiper Belt for another 20-30 years, as in we millennials will be old or dead by the time we get new Pluto pics if they get their way.

Universe Today article on the problem

Phys.org article

The petition was actually on Isaac Arthur's channel and is almost at 5000 signatures, please sign

People who say that are just trying to be a dick to you. Say something soul-searing to them in response and they'll stop.

Thx

The possibility is as horrifying philosophically as it is literally

Common sense

She didn't mean that shit literally. She didn't actually give them permission to do anything -- language doesn't work like that.

Language was never meant to be taken literally all of the time and context does in fact matter. The scumfucks who sexually assaulted her just did it because they like that sort of thing and because they can. Perhaps they have anger issues with women, too.

It IS wrong. That's the whole point. Good people don't just harm innocents simply because there's an opportunity to do it without consequences. Even with consent that shit is still fucked up. The good people understood that which is why someone took the gun away and why that poor woman is still alive.

I hope someone made a list of everyone who hurt that poor woman.

Fuck, it's Candlejack. Kids, I don't know if you ever heard the story, but don't ever say the word Candlejack, because then he co--

I'm amazed people still use ICQ

I won't be celebrating it. I'll be lamenting the fact that other people decided to let the world burn waiting for corrupt pieces of shit like him to die instead of overthrowing him themselves, which may have prevented all this.

EDIT: Ignore this post; I was running on 6 hours of sleep and no caffeine and this is why, we stay off of Lemmy early in the morning. I apologize if I hurt anyone's feelings.

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